For those of you who wondered “is the new season  of Arrested Development going to have Peanuts references, as they did during the first two and half seasons of the show years ago?”, the answer is yes, as of the very first new episode. (And for those of you who have not watched this funny series, allow me to warn you that the Peanuts references are not always the genteelist of things.)

Meanwhile, AAUGH Blog reader Walter pointed out to me something that I (usually a beagle-eyed catcher of Peanuts references in things) had missed: Peanuts characters appear in the hit movie Iron Man 3, both in the film itself and in the much-lauded end credits title sequence. I managed to find a legal online source for the title sequence to verify, and at about the 1:10 mark in the video I found this:

Now what is that down by the record player? Walter thought it was a Peanuts coloring book, but looking at it online allows us to slow things down and take a closer look:

And with that close a look, it lets us know that this is an eminently logical thing to find next to a record player around Christmastime, which is when the film is set:

And that includes a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas, which as we all know is something that I live for.

Iron Man 3 was, by the way, an enjoyable film; better than the second in the series, if not up to the first. Because it is a film based on a character co-created by Jack Kirby (even though Kirby wasn’t as involved as he was in Captain America, Hulk, Fantastic Four, or X-Men), and because the Kirby family isn’t compensated for all the billions of dollars of business that is being done off of these movie adaptations, I went and kicked a buck toward the Kirby legacy as part of my campaign, A Buck For Jack.

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